"As a self-taught human rights worker who relies on local libraries for his primary research, the Kansas City Public Library's 2013 scholar in residence Alvin Sykes works with the justice system on behalf of minorities and the poor.

"In a public conversation with Library Director Crosby Kemper III, Sykes talks about testifying before Congress, bending the ears of politicians, and his role in creating the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act, which gives the U.S. Department of Justice the means to investigate long-ago cases of civil rights violations.

"Yet much of his work has been low profile: a case of workplace discrimination here, food stamps denied or an unfair eviction there. Frequently, his work is not only unpublicized but also uncompensated."

Really a great event and a look at somebody who has made it their life's work to struggle for social justice . . . Hopefully, we'll have more BREAKING/EXCLUSIVE NEWS for the morning update with all kinds of local content, links, discussion, debate, discourse and all kinds of good stuff . . . STAY TUNED!!!

Is everyone having a ZAARLY day??!!! We're just one of the many big-time startups that Google Fiber has allowed KC to jumpstart into existence!! You wouldn't believe the exciting things happening at the Startup Village these days!!

"Alvin Sykes works with the justice system on behalf of minorities and the poor."

I wish they would get rid of that term or force them to show the statistics of what "minorities" he has worked with aside from of course ... Blacks, Black Women, poor Blacks, poor Black women, I am so tired of hearing this play on words and they've changed up simply because people are tired of hearing black this or black that .. they know that they by far have more rights and more opportunities than any other human in this country and these "welfare recipients" couldnt find a real job beyond grants and handouts if they tried ... fuck brooks

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